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Michael Gurney

Michael Gurney

Michael Gurney covers lower Sunshine Coast arts and culture for the Coast Reporter.

Recent Work by Michael

Cultural trailblazers gather for Heritage Playhouse milestone

Cultural trailblazers gather for Heritage Playhouse milestone

As one of the busiest cultural hubs in Gibsons approaches a century of service, a gathering of visionaries last Sunday celebrated the silver anniversary of its latest transformation.
Symphonic strings stretch across Howe Sound

Symphonic strings stretch across Howe Sound

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s School of Music at Camp Elphinstone
Art Beat: Honing in on festival highlights also, recital honours Frances Heinsheimer Wainwright

Art Beat: Honing in on festival highlights also, recital honours Frances Heinsheimer Wainwright

The three-week Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts culminated last week with sessions dedicated to vocalists, bands, instrumentalists and orators.
This weekend's anti-fashion cabaret sews chaos, reaps renewal

This weekend's anti-fashion cabaret sews chaos, reaps renewal

Over a dozen emerging textile artists are poised to showcase new designs as part of a youth-driven project that refutes mass-produced monotony at the Ripped Open anti-fashion cabaret on Sunday, May 4.
Art Beat: Provincial pianist tour touches down in Sechelt

Art Beat: Provincial pianist tour touches down in Sechelt

Sunshine Coast Registered Music Teachers will present an emerging Canadian piano star on May 4 at the Raven’s Cry Theatre.
Sunshine Coast fiddlers take bows on Calgary stage

Sunshine Coast fiddlers take bows on Calgary stage

The Coast String Fiddlers, one of the Sunshine Coast’s longest-running youth music groups, last week performed on the most historic stage in Western Canada.
Sunshine Coast Musician Jill Shatford shows life is the stuff of song

Sunshine Coast Musician Jill Shatford shows life is the stuff of song

Jill Shatford’s 'I Am A Bridge' musical experience for families and children takes place at Roberts Creek Hall on May 4 from 3 to 4 p.m.
Brothers in Farms launches its new album

Brothers in Farms launches its new album

Farm fraternity presses play on fresh approach
Gibsons writer shortlisted for BC book honour

Gibsons writer shortlisted for BC book honour

Marion McKinnon Crook’s memoir 'Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing, Ranching, and Rural Living' — published in 2024 by Heritage House Publishing — was last week named a finalist for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award.
Sunshine Coast student films project cutting-edge creativity

Sunshine Coast student films project cutting-edge creativity

A three-month student film competition unspooled last Saturday with an invitation-only screening at the Raven’s Cry Theatre that attracted scores of participating filmmakers, supporters and admirers.
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